Rent Control Committee
In 2007 Berkovits founded a rent control committee in the Sanhedria Murhevet neighborhood of Jerusalem, where he resides, in response to price gouging on the part of landlords renting to non-resident Haredi families. Many other neighborhoods followed his lead, and this policy was adopted by Rabbi Aharon Leib Shteinman of Bnei Brak and the Belzer Rebbe. This effort has served to maintain reasonable rental prices for foreigners living in Jerusalem.
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